Building a Gr4 replica

Gaps align nicely.

Tomorrow moving on to the other side !!

Did you clear coat the door to prevent/inhibit rust?

The door appears to be stainless steel!...Mark

MAn, that is impressive!. You motivate me to want to tackle that!

Super work.

I usually don't want to comment on a thread if I can't add value, but your work really looks first class.

I love to see the craftsmanship in metal that we (often) see on this board.

Rocky

Push...as per usual....all I can say is "nicely done"!

Finally got the other door finished

With the skin on

Closing the marker light openings

Now that both doors fit, I could finish welding the outer B-post skins

Also closed the recessed openings for the front bumpers. The gr4 cars had this mod performed and the bumpers replaced with front position lights from a Lancia Fulvia.

The NOS front fender I put on the car was the early type with the narrow bucket opening. So had to widen it to make the wider, late model bucket fit

A 10 mm wider and 10 mm longer opening is required

Front fenders are done

Things are a little slow on the forum, so here are a few progress pictures of my gr4 project.

I decided to add a upper rigidity-bar and hope that it will comply with FIA rules. I've already added some smaller stiffening plates in the rear part of the chassis (see earlier in the thread), but this bar, in my view, is the most important bolt-on addition you can add to the chassis, basically preventing the shock towers from flexing under load and hard braking. In combination with the roll cage this should stiffen the rear up considerebly.

This is a piece from Hall.

The inner wheel housings actually have a curvature, which means a little reworking of the attachments plates are required before welding

Also added a few reinforcement plates to the rear mounts

At the front end of the chassis, I added these stiffening plates to the inside of the subframe.

Here are all fours cormers shown

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Originally posted by Push1267:
Also added a few reinforcement plates to the rear mounts

Assembling my suspension parts again, I found out many of the mounts had different widths. Even worse, there was quite a variation in width of the new bushings I bought....duh. Had to have the grinder running overtime The day I start working on my chassis in a way like you are currently doing, I'll take the time to get these things sorted out properly - read, the non-Italian way

as always Push.... lookin great!